February 2012
6 posts
I abandon my abusive relationship with Facebook →
Scientific publishing: The price of information |... →
LibreOffice info graphic « The Document Foundation... →
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North American craft beer in Hannover, Germany
What is the only place (I know of) in Hannover where you can get North American craft beer?
You won’t believe it: It is the zoo. They currently offer three different ales produced by Yukon Beer from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada:
Yukon Gold English Pale Ale
Yukon Red Amber Ale
Deadman Creek Cranberry Wheat
I tried the Yukon Gold, which tasted nice. Will have to go back soon to...
mjg59: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement →
LibreTab… not? →
January 2012
34 posts
IPAs 13 ways | DRAFT Magazine →
Recommendable - like/dislike based recommendations... →
Apple's ebook sales restrictions →
Brewdog Blitz! →
3 tags
Kinovea - Video Analysis Software for Sports →
snopes.com: Tiger and Piglets →
Plain Text Offenders →
5 tags
Padre 0.94 has been released. →
Meine 3 Lieblingsspanier in Hannover →
Farbebier – Wikipedia →
Bad statistics →
Bier zum Wochenende: Hachenburger Selection No.1... →
Aesthetician Wanted...
moviepilotlabs:
We are now looking for someone to help us take moviepilot.com to the next level and create visually astonishing, elegant web interfaces.
If this is you, learn more here.
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose... →
Giraph and small clusters | “I for one welcome our... →
http://blog.plover.com/math/russell.html →
LaTeX and cyrillic text snippets →
… things you learn while writing a PhD thesis …
On Debian and Ubuntu systems, you should also install the package texlive-lang-cyrillic.
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
The rsync algorithm →
Hild Pils - Hildesheims neue Tradition →
http://withouthotair.blogspot.com/2012/01/version-3... →
“Noncommercial” is fuzzy — The Endeavour →
P-values and hypothesis testing get a bad rap -...
simplystatistics:
This post written by Jeff Leek and Rafa Irizarry.
The p-value is the most widely-known statistic. P-values are reported in a large majority of scientific publications that measure and report data. R.A. Fisher is widely credited with inventing the p-value. If he was cited every time a p-value was reported his paper would have, at the very least, 3 million citations* - making it...
code.nasa.gov →
Will Amazon offer an analytics service? →
Why all academics should have professional Twitter... →
Stuart Shieber: Switching to open access for the... →
Decision Trees in C#/Accord.NET →
Justin Domke: CRF Toolbox for Matlab (written in... →
Peregrine: MapReduce framework for running... →
TIL: Skype is written in Delphi (Pascal) →
That’s the very core of the Free Software Foundation’s and...
– Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
Parallel Gradient Boosted Regression Trees 0.9
– mloss | Project details:pGBRT, Parallel Gradient Boosted Regression Trees
Multi-label classification challenge: Topical Classification of Biomedical...
– Task - JRS 2012 Data Mining Competition: Topical Classification of Biomedical Research Papers - JRS12Contest | TunedIT
December 2011
4 posts
My Perl/CPAN résumé →
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Pro tip
Pro tip: If you edit a book whose “chapters” mostly consists of already published papers by different authors, make sure to replace all references like “in this paper” before sending it to the publisher.
The tools grep and ack, as well as the search function of your favorite text editor/word processor, may be useful for that.
dev notes: qs - quickly sharing files →
stuffwithcomputers:
When you are working in a team you often want to share some files with coworkers. More often than not you cannot send those files via email, because they might get blocked (I am looking at you Outlook web access) or they are simply to big for email, like the latest ISOs of your favorite Linux…
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Manos and MonoDevelop
How to develop web applications with Manos and MonoDevelop, in 10 easy steps:
manos --init MyProject
cd MyProject/
mkdir lib/ src/ doc/
start MonoDevelop
create solution “MyProject” in src/
mv *.cs src/MyProject/MyProject
add Manos .dll files as dependencies
set project to .NET 4.0
Now you can compile/edit/do whatever you want to do with the project.
manos --server...
November 2011
17 posts
Awesome: Vector screenshots →
http://shutter-project.org/2011/11/shutter-0-88-rel... →
Urban Mining: Spatial isn’t Special →
UberFridge: Arduino-based homebrew fermentation... →